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Audio 47:13
Country Hour Mon 5 August, 2013

One of the Northern Territory cattle industry's pioneering greats has died, 50 years after arriving from Queensland as a youthful drover and rodeo rider; A new fundraising program set up to help struggling farmers has been overwhelmed with enquiries, including some from the Northern Territory; and 66 years ago a police officer challenged a local pastoral family to a horse race.